CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Conchucos it runs 425 km to Conchucos; allow about 12 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre, Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 and back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Inca built roads the way other empires built walls, as a statement of power, and the high stretches in the northern Andes of Peru show it best. This segment of the Qhapaq Nan, the great network that the Incas extended over some thirty thousand kilometres, runs through steep country between the Santa river canyon and the high valleys of Conchucos, where the road goes where it must, up flights of stone steps, along retaining walls and across ravines on bridges of woven grass rope.
Read the complete Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is where the day begins. Next is Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
High on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca, in the Conchucos valleys of Ancash, a stretch of the old Inca road crosses grassy ridges between Cotocancha and the heights known as Alturas de Torre. This is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the vast Andean road network that tied the Inca empire together, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. The main trunk here ran north from Huánuco Pampa towards Cajamarca, and in places you can still see stone paving, retaining walls, drainage channels and steps.
Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, in the region of Ancash known as the Conchucos, the Inca road system, the Qhapaq Ñan, crossed some of the most rugged terrain of its entire network. This segment, near the small town of Yauya, is part of the main road that ran north from Cusco to Quito through the high Andes, linking administrative centres such as Huánuco Pampa to the south. The Inca engineers laid stone paving, built steps on steep slopes, retaining walls and drainage channels, and stretches of the road can still be walked today, threading across high grasslands and past lakes at altitudes well over three and a half thousand metres. The whole network, which crosses six countries, became a World Heritage site in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 212 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051. Next is back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre, late in the day. Next is Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco. That is the ride.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco → Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 → back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.